Hi guys,

I found out today while wasting time on the internet at work researching some stuff that there is a much nicer official theme available for Windows XP than the default ones, called "energy Blue". It was apparently shipped for MCE and then leaked on various sites for XP.

I've seen a few of your desktop piccies seem to have it installed; anyone got the skinny on how / where to get this?

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=energy+blue&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

first result on google.

Hi,

Have you actually tried to download from the linked page? It doesn't appear to work - Ive been to a dozen or so google results, Cock!

I got mine from autopatcher extras.

i downloaded somethning from the wikipedia links but no go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Blue

Tried that link, works fine for me. ^



last edited by shad at 14:46:22 26/Jul/07

Cock's link shad?

Bloody thing just keeps loading the same page for me!

Link on bottom of Wiki worked!

Thanks all, stupid day here ...

I use luna royale
my desktop. pretty.

Hasn't this been around for years?

yep

Your AVG is out of date whoop

actually it's up to date but resident shield is turned off

Hasn't this been around for years?

Yeah, a few years by the look of it - introduced in the MCE in '04. I'm not exactly the quickest on the uptake with this stuff, we have to keep our systems pretty standard so that we can take screenshots for docos etc - the Royale thingy is a MS standard tho, so is cool apparently.

Anyway thanks for the halps. I still see a lot of bum-ugly plain XP Blue desktops so maybe not everyone knows about it yet :D

Windows Classic or BUST

bust as in boobs? i'll take boobs any day.

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Windows Classic or BUST

i dont often agree with troggles, but hes right

anything else is just a waste of resources

If your computer in any way noticeably improves when running Windows Classic theme, then you need to upgrade the bloody thing.

I like it, are there any other official MS themes I don't know about >?

i dont have cycles to spare

I installed that energy blue one yesterday after seeing this thread. Before I was running just the windows classic mode but this new one is growing on me.

I like it, are there any other official MS themes I don't know about >?

The Wiki page for Energy Blue lists a few at the bottom.

I installed Royale Noir (which added blue as well) and the Zune theme.

I'm liking the Royale Blue atm; its not so far form default XP that I look like I'm running a non-standard OS, but is significantly less upgly than default XP blue!

to help, I used that luna royale theme, and then made the close/minimize/restore buttons smaller in the appearance options (which also makes the title bar smaller as a side effect) so that my titlebars don't take up a chunk of space and look butt ugly like they do on default luna size. Works with just about any theme, doesn't only apply to the luna royale one.

i use classic only because its easier to find stuff in the menu